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“I hope that the states are taking seriously their obligations to harden the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure that Americans rely upon and need.”

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Jeh Johnson

Jeh Johnson is the former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, born on September 11, 1957. He has held several key positions in the government and has extensive experience in national security. more

“There's a lot of sensitivity about federal involvement in elections around the country. I think that it would be appropriate to consider - whether there should be some basic federal minimum standards to the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure. We have federal standards for aviation security, for auto safety, for a lot of things, and elections are pretty important in the country.”

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“The Secret Service hates to complain about something. They're secret by nature. They're not boastful; they don't like to be in the limelight. And therefore, they need middle management, i.e., a Cabinet-level person, to be their advocate, to Congress, to the White House, to ensure that they have adequate funding.”

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“And we need a president who is a uniter, not a divider; who can lower the temperature, not raise the temperature. And I wish President Trump would spend more time trying to go beyond his immediate base to reach people, and use the presidential microphone to try to bring people together, instead of the rhetoric that seems to divide us.”

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“You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way.”

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“I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.”